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- SIGN", I v No. 293,702., I v Patented Feb. 19-, 1884.

, v UNITED STATES .PATENT- OFFICE.

WALTER E. BANNING, or SYRACUSE, NEW'YORK.

SIGN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,702, dated February 19, 1884.

' Application filed October 11, ises. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- I

Be it known that I, WALTER E. BANNING, of

' Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Street-Lamp Signs, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to street-signs formed of perforated or stencil plates, the openings of which represent the name of the street. Said signs,when secured infront of the streetlamp, serve to show the name of the street in a very conspicuousand distinct manner in the daytime as well as at night,when the lamp is lighted.

The invention consists, chiefly,in the manner and means'of securing the said sign in-position in front of the lamp, as hereinafter more fully described, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure I shows a street-lamp provided with my improvement. Figs. II and III are enlarged detachedviews of the street-signs, and Fig. IV illustrates their attachment tothe IampsuppOrting frame or guards of the lamp.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A and A represent two street-signs designed to be attached to different sides of a streetlamp, said signs consisting of sheet -metal plates having the name of the street formed by stencil excisions or perforations of the plate. These plates A and A are formed on one of their ends with two extensions or strips, a a, andon the opposite end with a single strip, 1), which latter is near the top of one plate and near the bottom of the otherplate, so that said ends of the plates may be placed adjacent and-in line with each other when attached to the lamp-frame or its support.

placed in line with each other, against one of the guards c, and the strip b, which is near the top edge of one of the plates, is wound spirally upward on the guard, while the strip of the other plate is wound spirally downward on said guard, the opposite ends of the plates being placed against the two guards 0 c, at opposite sides of the first-mentioned guard, and secured in position by winding one of the strips a spirally upward and the other spirally downward on the guard. This spiral attachment in opposite directions on the guard,while simple and convenient, atv the same time affords afirm andbracing hold,which effectually pre-' vents the signs from shifting out of line, and

also obviates the necessity of perforating the guard for the reception of bolts or rivets, by which'to attach'the signs, and admits of their ready removal. from the lamp orits frame, when desired.

Having described my invention, what I claim-is- 1. In combination with a street-lamp and its frame, a stencil sign-plate having extended from its end two strips Wound spirally around the guards of the lamp, the one upward and the other downward from the strip, substantially as described and shown. 1

2. In combination with a street-lamp and its frame, two stencil sign-plates arranged in line with each other, and provided at their ad jacent ends,respecti vely,with a strip disposed in a different plane and wound around the lamp-guard in a different direction from the strip of the adjacent plate, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my seal, in the presence of two attesting witnesses, at Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, this 6th day of .October, 1883.

WALTER n. BANNING. n s] 

